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A 12 page research paper that offers 4 short essays on 4 aspects of African history. The writer looks at the impact of Christianity and Islam on the Africa; role of western education; role of women and the role of the environment in shaping African history. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates.?? African History Research Compiled By
- April, 2010 properly! Social and political impact of Islam and Christianity In regards to both Islam
and Christianity, African peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing their own belief systems entirely (Parker and Rathbone, 2007). Dona
Beatriz Kimpa Vita, a Congolese woman, founded a religious movement that reinterpreted "Jesus, Mary and St. Francis" as Congolese (Parker and Rathbone, 2007, p. 73). When she fell into the
hands of warring factions during a civil war, she was put to death for heresy in 1706; nevertheless, her religious perspective is typical of the way in which Africans integrated
Christian and Islamic beliefs into the local cultures (Parker and Rathbone, 2007). North Africa was prominent in Christianity from the faiths early history, as North Africa was home to
Augustine of Hippo. But it was in Ethiopia that Parker and Rathbone (2007) indicate that Christianity became most deeply embedded, as the Ethiopian church was able to resist the expansion
of Islam. Like Christianity, in Africa, Islam took on localized form that varied from country to country. African Islam encompasses a wide variety of forms, which range from "heterodox Sufi
orders to the most orthodox reformist movements" (Parker and Rathbone, 2007, p. 75). Powers indicates that Reverend Isaac Taylor, the Canon of York, announced to a British audience in
1897 that failed in its mission to civilize the "savage, barbarous Africans" (Powers, 2000). Furthermore, Taylor continued to explain, Islam had done a far better job of ridding Africa of
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